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Concrete and desert islands: Proto-posthuman crusoes in Daniel Defoe and J. G. Ballard (2016)
Journal Article
Sivyer, C. (2016). Concrete and desert islands: Proto-posthuman crusoes in Daniel Defoe and J. G. Ballard. Word and Text - A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics, VI, 73-91

This article will argue that J. G. Ballard’s Concrete Island can be productively read as a narrative that engages some of the central ideas of posthumanism and that from this reading one can then re read its source text, Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Cruso... Read More about Concrete and desert islands: Proto-posthuman crusoes in Daniel Defoe and J. G. Ballard.

Review of Chiluwa (2011) 'Labeling and ideology in the press: A corpus-based critical discourse study of the Niger delta crisis' (2016)
Journal Article
Nartey, M. (2016). Review of Chiluwa (2011) 'Labeling and ideology in the press: A corpus-based critical discourse study of the Niger delta crisis'. Pragmatics and Society, 7(3), 503-506. https://doi.org/10.1075/ps.7.3.08nar

Teaching decolonization beyond the nation: The case of West Africa (2016)
Journal Article
Reeves, M. (2016). Teaching decolonization beyond the nation: The case of West Africa. World History Connected, 13(2),

How should we teach the history of decolonization, especially in a wide-ranging survey course? Debate has typically raged over whether we should emphasize the actions of imperial governments over independence movements, and vice versa. However, yet... Read More about Teaching decolonization beyond the nation: The case of West Africa.